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Jean Rhys · 1966
A postcolonial novel set in Jamaica and Dominica that reimagines the backstory of the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, exploring themes of colonialism, race, and female identity through the perspective of a young white Creole woman.
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Colonialism and patriarchy conspire to erase a woman's self until she becomes the madwoman in someone else's story.
self-and-identity
But we were not in their ranks. The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my mother — she was a Martinique girl.
WSS-RC-001'Look the white niggers!' — belonging nowhere, named by the crowd's contempt.
WSS-RC-017trauma-and-survival
I was ill for a long time. My head was bandaged because someone had thrown a stone at me.
WSS-RC-070This cardboard house where I walk at night is not England. I ached all over. Not the cold, another sort of ache.
WSS-RC-097obedience-and-authority
Everybody know that you marry her for her money and you take it all. And then you want to break her up.
WSS-RC-082'This house belong to Miss Antoinette's mother, now it belongs to her.' 'I assure you that it belongs to me now.'
WSS-RC-086Illuminates
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